Re: [PATCH 0/2] etzkx accelerometer support

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Jun 16 2013 - 17:50:54 EST


On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 11:40:26PM +0200, Andi Shyti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> these two patches provide the etzkx device driver which supports
> the following accelerometers:
>
> - Kionix kxcnl
> - Kionix kxtnk
> - ST lisn3dsh
>
> Support for ST lis3dsh accelerometer is still in progress.
>
> The etzkx accelerometers are a kind of devices that are able to
> do gesture recognition directly on the device. It uses two slots
> of 16 steps (bytes) each for loading algorithms which perform
> gesture recognition.
>
> The second patch contains the documentation of the device driver.
>
> On http://www.etezian.org/etzkx/etzkx/ is possible to find more
> informations about the accelerometer.

Why isn't this a drivers/iio/accel/ driver instead of a misc driver?
Please make this an iio driver, then you will be using the correct
user/kernel api to talk to your device.

thanks,

greg k-h
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